Carnival Says 2023 Bookings Show Cruisers So Ready to Put Pandemic to Rest
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Travelers are largely eager to put concerns about rising Covid cases behind them, a welcome development for Covid-weary companies like Carnival that are bullish on making a full recovery in 2023.
Carnival CEO Josh Weinstein said, during Wednesday's earnings call for its fiscal fourth quarter that ended on November 30, some consumers are a bit weary about booking cruises with Covid and flu cases on the rise. But that didn't dampen his optimism about 2023 with Carnival seeing a surge in bookings for the new year, after years of seeing its business being dogged by the pandemic with onboard outbreaks, deaths, and plenty of bad publicity.
"What we see is people are happy to get on with their lives," Weinstein said. "We see trends that are going back to
